De_forlorn WIP

[will2k]

To me this is one of those maps that feel familiar even the first time you see it!
I guess that just speaks to a strong and well developed theme. I'm super digging the nostalgic feel! 
Glad to see this one back in development

 

Agreed, the theme is frikkin amazing. 

Thank you for the encouraging comments

I am staying as close and faithful as possible to the Half-Life/Opposing Force theme, without sacrificing CSGO gameplay (angles, readability, visibility, etc...).

Fun fact: I've replayed "Blue Shift" last week to get additional inspiration

[will2k]

More progress in beta1

 

Edited November 3, 2015 by will2k

[jackophant]

that outside shot fills me with nostalgia  

[will2k]

that outside shot fills me with nostalgia  

Half-Life's "Surface Tension" and Opposing Force's "Welcome to Black Mesa" chapters FTW

[jackophant]

Half-Life's "Surface Tension" and Opposing Force's "Welcome to Black Mesa" chapters FTW

Ok, you drive a hard bargain but I will play them this weekend! Opposing force was the first computer game I bought myself, from Toys'R'Us no less! xD 

[will2k]

Ok, you drive a hard bargain but I will play them this weekend! Opposing force was the first computer game I bought myself, from Toys'R'Us no less! xD 

When I'm working on certain sections in the map, I get nostalgic and suddenly feel the urge to replay some sections in HL and OpFor, "strictly" for "inspiration" purposes

[will2k]

A glimpse of things to come

[Bodd Jonar]

It's so pretty!

[will2k]

It's so pretty!

Thanks.

Detailing is roughly at 25%; still quite a road ahead but progress is steady and stamina is high

[Logic]

Any current overview? All I could find was one from 2:nd May 2014

Theme looks very clean, which is always good! It really screams Black Mesa and/or an old fashioned Bond-villain base 

[jackophant]

Needs 100% more pinky rock faces

[will2k]

Any current overview? All I could find was one from 2:nd May 2014

Theme looks very clean, which is always good! It really screams Black Mesa and/or an old fashioned Bond-villain base 

Thank you . I'm trying my best to have visual fidelity and eye-candy while keeping visibility and player readability at a maximum.

The layout you mentioned is indeed for alpha 1 version; the current beta layout is slightly different in mid and around both bombsites.

 

Needs 100% more pinky rock faces

Spot on, Jack

These rocks are iconic for HL/Opfor and they are on my to do list since alpha1 version but they will be kept until later stages in detailing since 50% of them will be in the map while the other 50% will be in the 3D skybox. I even included them indoors like the "Lambda Bunker" level (https://www.mapcore.org/topic/17209-de_forlorn-wip/?do=findComment&comment=404898 4th screenshot-tunnel).

At some point in development. I considered the idea to have the outdoors more European (white/grey rocks with pine trees and green hills) but finally decided against as players will most likely dissociate the map from the HL/Opfor theme.

[will2k]

Progress was a bit slow in the past 15 days;

I was focusing my time and energy on writing and finishing the 2 technical articles about Source engine visleaves and PVS (https://www.mapcore.org/topic/17174-sharing-my-newly-released-paper-on-optimization-testing-in-source-engine/?do=findComment&comment=406742)

 

Edited December 2, 2015 by will2k

[will2k]

In another note, I was having a bit of an issue with the military radar on top of the rocks (screenshot in previous post). It's a func_brush (non-round resetting entity), therefore cannot be parented to a func_rotating (round resetting entity) in Counter-Strike round-based gameplay. The brush was immediately disappearing even at the start of round 1.

I had to ditch entities parenting and resort to "logic_measure_movement" entity, and with a bit of tweaking, it's working like a charm.

[UNREA1]

This is looking so good each screenshot, makes me wanna lick the monitor. C: